'It is a wonder what God can do with a broken heart,if he gets all the pieces'

*Happy Earth Day everybody! I am not totally obessed the whole save the earth thing,not to the point where I am fanatical about it and I probably do not care about it as much as I should but I am happy to say that this year I have managed to cut down on my use of plastic,especially plastic bottles by using my Klean Kanteen which aside from being much better for the environment is also very cute and hip looking.
I do want to try harder this year to be more aware of the environment and the impact of what I do on it.Cutting back on things that are not essential and reducing the amount of waste.

*Speaking of being better for the environment,Chris and I got to go down to market last weekend in a adorable Green Toyota Prius that our friend Alisha has.She decided to ride with the family and asked Chris if he wanted to drive it down so he did and it was very fun.I felt so yuppy-ish and cool.So the whole way down I was messing with the radio and everything.
Not sure if a Prius is something I would ever want but they are pretty darn cute especially in the Grasshopper green (as my brother calls it,although it looks more like a minty green to me).

*Chris had to do a fairly big project in Sociology on designing a school and what its main thrust would be,etc.I am so proud of him as he decided to do a Green School which was a dome shape with solar panels on the top,lots of energy efficient windows,buying local food to help the local economy and reduce the carbon footprint,etc.I had fun helping him look up stuff and I think he got a good grade on it which made me happy.

*I must be in love because guess what I did yesterday? Spend several hours on a Zero Turn mowing.But even more shocking is that I actually enjoyed it and am eager to do it again.Of course it does not help that the Zero Turn is totally amazing and you can zoom around in that bad boy.
If you had told me a year ago that I would have been outside mowing,well I would of laughed at you and yet here I am and it is really quite nice.I like stepping outside of the norm and doing things I never thought I would like and actually finding out that they are fun.
Plus just doing something that Chris enjoys with him is fun.He does so much for me,things that most guys would never do,like going shopping,going to art museums,concerts,ballets,buying me expensive chocolates,etc that I can do things he likes too.It is totally worth it to do things with him to see him so happy and having so much fun.:)

*I am trying to come up with some new things that Chris and I can do together.Any ideas? I am thinking about doing tennis as I always thought it sounded like fun and he does too,plus his family has a ton of tennis rackets and that is a nice inexpensive thing to learn together.
I would love to take ballroom dancing lessons but Chris' Mum is not found of dancing so we would probably have to do that after we are married.
But if anyone has any ideas of good inexpensive thing for couples to do or learn together I would love ideas.Chris is very much a nature,animal and outdoors person whereas I am more of a bookish,indoors,museum type of person but we both enjoy everything.

*And because it is Earth Day I will close out with a few interesting quotes about the Earth and such.

"For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death." ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

"Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it." ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader's Digest, July 1972

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money." ~Cree Indian Proverb

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." ~William Shakespeare